It's harder than we expect it to be, isn't it? Sports clarifies it, for me, but I don't always apply the sports lessons to my non-athletic life. It's taken me three tries, after all :-)
This paragraph might be the funniest damn profundity you've ever written: "Let’s not focus on the part where she was corralled and returned to her home in a petting zoo in Anaconda, Montana (yes that is the town’s real name). Let’s focus on how she spent a few days on the lam, surely telling all the woodland creatures she encountered to “call me Shug”, in the zebra voice of a pirate or an outlaw or a spy. Let’s say that Shug was living her best life for a while. Because she went for it.."
I am very taken with the adventures of Shug, and have continued to imagine her telling all her neighbors at the petting zoo all about her adventures. She has a high voice, in reality, but she adopts a gruff voice when she tells them to call her Shug, and tells them what it's like Outside.
Bravo! I love this reminder that it’s OK, not pushy, to be self-assertive.
It's harder than we expect it to be, isn't it? Sports clarifies it, for me, but I don't always apply the sports lessons to my non-athletic life. It's taken me three tries, after all :-)
This paragraph might be the funniest damn profundity you've ever written: "Let’s not focus on the part where she was corralled and returned to her home in a petting zoo in Anaconda, Montana (yes that is the town’s real name). Let’s focus on how she spent a few days on the lam, surely telling all the woodland creatures she encountered to “call me Shug”, in the zebra voice of a pirate or an outlaw or a spy. Let’s say that Shug was living her best life for a while. Because she went for it.."
Bonus points for comedic use of the word surely.
I am very taken with the adventures of Shug, and have continued to imagine her telling all her neighbors at the petting zoo all about her adventures. She has a high voice, in reality, but she adopts a gruff voice when she tells them to call her Shug, and tells them what it's like Outside.
well, I'd call Sugar Shug if he let me. And you are totally right in everything you say about tooting your own authorial horn. Brava!
Thanks, Christopher!
It’s a hard road we’re on. You have to toot your own horn! I ❤️ seeing all the success you are wrangling in this rodeo! 🦓
Excellent emoji work there!